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flanagan Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flannagáin ‘descendant of Flannagán’, a personal name derived from a double diminutive of flann ‘scarlet’, ‘ruddy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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flanagan Family Facts

Distribution of flanagan Families in the US in 1920
Number of flanagan families
 363-723
 122-362		 1-121
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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